Reverend Percy Kendall by Michael Ceraolo

Even some well-versed in baseball history

are probably wondering who I am and why I'm here

I'm in the Hall of Fame

I don't mean to say I was inducted into the Hall;

there is a photo of me in the library there

And that photo of me attending an Indians game in 1937

shows a radio next to me and an earpiece in my left ear

The radio is two-and-a-half fee tall and almost twenty pounds,

which certainly stretches the definition of the word portable

I usually listened to the broadcast of the game I was watching,

though I occasionally switched to broadcasts of Tigers games

I think I was the first to bring a radio to the ballpark,

or at least the first to be photographed doing so,

and that's why the Hall has a picture of me

Michael Ceraolo is a 62-year-old retired firefighter/paramedic and active poet who has had two full-length books (Euclid Creek, from Deep Cleveland Press; 500 Cleveland Haiku, from Writing Knights Press) published, and has two more (Euclid Creek Book Two, from unbound content press; Lawyers, Guns, and Money, from Writing Knights Press) in the publication pipeline.